Across the Asia-Pacific region, interest is growing in the cross-border recognition of registered funds, which would give investors access to a broader range of locally manufactured and regionally distributed products. Establishing a mutually recognised regional funds vehicle would help streamline cross-border recognition, while also encouraging the development of the funds industry across the region.
Just days before the Swedish AP3 releases its annual results, Amanda White spoke to head of asset management, deputy chief executive, Gustaf Hagerud, about the fund’s new dynamic approach to allocating risk. 
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The Australian Future Fund’s former general manager, Paul Costello, is the chair of a committee advising the government on the implementation of what could be the most important reforms to the $1.3 trillion Australian superannuation industry since the introduction of compulsory super in 1992.
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The ongoing saga of US investors’ right to have a say in corporate elections continues with the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) refuting the Business Roundtable’s (BRT) claims that the proxy rule will injure shareholder interests.
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A three-way research collaboration, between State Street, law firm K&L Gates and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, will deliver a series of bilateral webinars, thought pieces, research, and focused executive education programs, specifically for, and about, sovereign wealth funds.
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Infrastructure investment has not caught on in the US, compared with institutional investing peers such as Canada, Australia and the UK. But Arjuna Sittampalam, research associate with EDHEC-Risk Institute and editor of Investment Management Review, argues infrastructure is perceived as a way out of the morass in which the US finds itself.
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